[LinuxPPS] Occasionally ntpd stops receiving NMEA data

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:39:56PM +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>> In configure we find:
>>
>> cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
>> /* confdefs.h.  */
>> _ACEOF
>> cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
>> cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
>> /* end confdefs.h.  */
>> #include <sys/timepps.h>
>> #ifdef PPS_API_VERS_1
>> yes
>> #endif
>>
>> No hits in ntpd subdir.
> 
> Yes, but this modify the NTPD configuration!

So?
This means that defining a version number in the name of a variable is
not so handy of there is no control over other sources like in the case
of ntp.

For Philip a small patch of configure might fix the problem.

Udo